New Research

New Research

Here’s How Neuroscientists in the 1800s Studied Blood Flow in the Brain

New translations of early neuroscience reveal how in 1882 one Italian physiologist was able to measure blood flow changes in the brain

April 7, 2014

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Some Visions of the Crucifixion Aren’t T-Shaped

Jesus and others who were crucified didn’t necessarily die with their arms pinned straight out, the way we often imagine them

April 7, 2014

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Mayas Used Spiked Clubs to Bash Combatant’s Heads

Analysis of skulls gives insight into violence in the Mayan culture

April 4, 2014

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Ancient Wandering Shepherds Spread Crops Across Eurasia

The nomadic shepherds of central Asia joined east and west

April 4, 2014

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Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake

New proof that Enceladus is a watery world

April 4, 2014

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Almost 65 Years After Its Pieces Were Dispersed, Scientists Reconstructed a Long-Lost Dinosaur Chase

A lost set of dinosaur footprints in Texas has been reconstructed from 70-year-old photographs

April 4, 2014

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Dingoes Aren’t Just Wild Dogs

Rather than being the descendants of feral mutts, dingoes are actually in their own unique taxonomical corner

April 4, 2014

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Computers Are Learning How To Teach Each Other New Skills

Why would you teach a computer how to teach other computers how to murder more efficiently?

April 3, 2014

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Oxytocin Encourages People to Think More About the Group, Less About Themselves

It’s not that oxytocin makes people act in a good or bad way, just in a way that best serves the interests of their people

April 3, 2014

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Crummy Weather Can Lead to Harsher Online Restaurant Reviews

Are you sure you didn’t like the food? Maybe it was just the weather…

April 3, 2014

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Byzantine Monks Built Walls With Asbestos, Too

In millennia past, asbestos has also been used to make stronger pottery and flame-proof napkins

April 3, 2014

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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes, According to Science

Rather than acting as camouflage or social signals, zebra stripes seem to deter biting flies

April 3, 2014

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A Loving Touch Triggers Cockroaches to Make Babies Faster

Female cockroaches make eggs more quickly if they cuddle with other roaches, but artificial antennae delivering gentle touches can also speed egg growth

April 2, 2014

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No-Kill Caviar Could Make Luxury Less Expensive

Given a particular protein and a nice massage, sturgeon give up their eggs without giving up their lives

April 2, 2014

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There Are Too Many Pink Salmon in the Pacific

Pink salmon populations are booming, at the expense of other species

April 2, 2014

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It Is Now Technically Possible to Stop an Earthquake

Scientists have devised a way to reflect seismic waves

April 2, 2014

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“Happy Disgust” Is a Newly Recognized Human Facial Expression

Basic emotions like happy, sad or angry blend in interesting ways on the landscape of the human face

April 2, 2014

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Heat Increases the Risk of Early-Term Delivery

As temperatures rise, delivery rooms see a peak in early-term babies

April 2, 2014

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Language Discrimination Goes Beyond Just Grammar

Even when candidates are all equally qualified, employers pick native speakers over those born abroad

April 2, 2014

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How a Single Act of Evolution Nearly Wiped Out All Life on Earth

A single gene transfer event may have caused the Great Dying

April 1, 2014